PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A woman pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges she kidnapped a baby during a 1997 house fire and raised the girl as her own for six years.

Prosecutors have said that 42-year-old Carolyn Correa, desperate for a baby of her own after suffering a miscarriage, conspired to set the blaze and steal the 10-day-old child from her crib.

Correa pleaded no contest to kidnapping, interfering with parental custody and conspiracy and could get 25 to 50 years in prison.

The baby disappeared after a fire at the Philadelphia home of her mother, Luzaida Cuevas. Fire investigators found no human remains on the torched second floor and concluded the blaze had consumed Delimar Vera in her crib. They also ruled the fire accidental.

For the next six years, Correa raised the girl just 20 miles away in Willingboro, N.J. Correa had named the girl Aaliyah.

Cuevas, who authorities said never believed her child was dead, has said she instantly recognized the dimpled, dark-haired little girl as her daughter at a 2003 birthday party.

DNA tests proved her suspicions correct, Correa was arrested, and the girl was reunited with her parents and older siblings.

“Everything is fine,” Cuevas said Wednesday, when asked about the girl.

The plea does not fully solve the mystery of how the baby was spirited out a second-story window. Prosecutors said only that Correa conspired with “unknown other individuals.”

No sentencing date was. Correa is undergoing psychiatric evaluation.

The girl, now 7, did not attend Wednesday’s court session.

Correa was originally charged with setting the fire, but a judge dismissed those charges because experts could not say conclusively that the blaze was set.